‘GC’ as a label is about as precise and defined as ‘Christian’ or ‘animal lover’ or ‘British’. All of these words are umbrella terms that bracket diverse groups of people together who are inferred to have a vague consensus on one issue, where in fact they often don’t.
I actually don’t like to use the term GC to describe myself as I find, semantically, the term ‘gender critical’ is a lazy and reductive short-hand phrase. I am not ‘critical’ of ‘gender’ - I just reject the imposition of socially constructed roles on the basis of one’s biological plumbing and utterly eschew gender ideology. The theories, the research performed to ‘prove’ it and the academics performing the research are all flawed.
However, I sincerely believe in the biological fact that sex is immutable. I believe that people under the ‘trans’ umbrella are a mixed and diverse group of people who have one (or more) of many differing psychological and social problems who - in many but not all cases - deserve compassion and support to work their way through their issues. I am not ‘right wing’ or leftist in my politics, having basically flip-flopped like a dying fish either side of the centrist line according to each specific issue, though I do believe that the central line feels as though it is shifting rightwards.
I could care less who people sleep with, how many, or how they dress. I won’t stand for Islamophobia or anti semitism but feel religious extremism of all colours is dangerous and is one of the reasons that, whilst I largely agree with freedom of religion, I am personally atheist. It has no place in policy making or state governance. I personally could not have an abortion, but I have and will always fight for the right of other women and girls to have utter control over their bodies and to retain their reproductive rights. I think gender roles are socially constructed and vary according to time/culture but are often very much attached to or flow from biological sex differences - and from entrenched patriarchal systems that underly most societies despite lip service/virtue signalling that tries to market the idea that this is no longer the case.
Having been raised in a mixed race/faith family but also having a very fragile, conservative British female in-laws, I believe women are entitled to single sex spaces (loos, changing room, prisons), sports and should be able to ask for same sex intimate care. It appals me that my muslim aunties cannot go swimming and expect privacy or that my 83 year old MiL no longer feels she can use the changing rooms at Marks & Sparks. It appals me even more that my fragile 19yo autie DD is afraid of being female.
Am I GC? Within the wider definition yes, it would no doubt be applied to/imposed upon me. But I prefer to describe myself as a sex-realist, gender ideology-rejecting, feminist.